Critical climate stress moments may be defined as those moments when households, communities, and their livelihood systems are vulnerable to climate related risks and hazards. This working paper examines critical climate stress moments due to specific climatic and biophysical causes experienced by the people in the Teesta River basin in …
Critical climate stress moments may be defined as those moments when households, communities, and their livelihood systems are vulnerable to climate related risks and hazards. This working paper examines critical climate stress moments due to specific climatic and biophysical causes experienced by the people in the Teesta River basin in …
Springs are the most important source of water for millions of people in the mid-hills of the Himalaya. Both rural and urban communities depend on springs for meeting their drinking, domestic, and agricultural water needs. There is now increasing evidence of springs drying up or their discharge reducing, as a …
The government Thursday approved a proposal for state-run hydro power giant NHPC to take over debt-laden Lanco's 500 MW Teesta hydro-electric power project in Sikkim. "Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) gives approval for the investment sanction for acquisition of LancoTeesta Hydro Power Ltd (LTHPL) and execution of balance work …
Bangladesh is hopeful over the assurance that was given by India over the contentious dispute on the water-sharing issue of Teesta river. Dhaka: Bangladesh is hopeful over the assurance that was given by India over the contentious dispute on the water-sharing issue of Teesta river, flowing on the India-Bangladesh border. …
Calcutta: The Atreyi, the Teesta and three other north Bengal rivers have been severely affected by human encroachments and waste dumping, affecting marine life and livelihoods of local fishermen, an activist has said citing a study. Tuhin Suvro Mondal was speaking at a recent convention in Calcutta where 10 other …
State-owned NHPC Ltd today announced the commissioning of Unit 4 of Teesta Low Dam Project-IV. "The unit 4 of Teesta Low Dam Project-IV (160 MW) has been successfully commissioned at its full load of 40 MW on August 11, 2016 at 01:00 hrs," NHPC said in a BSE filing. Gamesa …
Power equipment manufacturer Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has commissioned the second 40 MW hydropower generating unit at the Teesta low dam hydro electric project (HEP) stage-IV in West Bengal, the company said on Monday. "Just a month after the commissioning of the first 40 MW hydro electric generating unit …
Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) has commissioned a 40 MW hydro electric generating unit in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district. This takes BHEL’s total hydel power commissioning to 770 MW in this fiscal, which is also the highest so far in a single fiscal year since 2005-06. The project is a …
Govt To Seek Consent From 3 States Soon Moving forward with its grand plan of linking rivers across the country , the Centre on Monday announced that it will take up the task of connecting Manas-Sankosh-TeestaGanga in Assam, West Bengal and Bihar. The three states will soon be approached for …
At least 38 people were killed in landslides triggered by incessant overnight rains in Darjeeling district in the past 24 hours, swamping homes, washing away highways and throwing normal life out of gear in the mountainous area. The police, SSB and NDRF started rescue and relief operations, and the Army’s …
Atleast four hundred people have been affected in Jalpaiguri district following release of excess water Teesta river after rains in upper reaches. The affected areas are under Rajganj block of the district and people's houses have inundated since last night, the block's BDO T N Sherpa said. The Dobaganj-Takhimari road …
Teesta water-sharing agreement unlikely to be taken up during Modi's Bangladesh visit. Sushma Swaraj walks slowly these days because of a leg brace, but it has not slackened her pace in setting the foreign policy agenda of the Narendra Modi government. On May 31, the external affairs minister addressed the …
Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said all problems related to the signing of Teesta water sharing agreement with Bangladesh had been resolved and it would soon be approved. “Both countries will give their approval to it very soon. We are hopeful that we will get full cooperation from the …
A clutch of private equity investors has written to power minister Piyush Goyal raising concerns over the delay in the commissioning of the 1,200-MW Teesta-III hydro power project in Sikkim as other stakeholders show reluctance to infuse the extra equity needed in view of the cost overruns. The project's revised …
Bangladesh and India on Saturday reiterated their commitment to finalisation of an interim agreement for sharing the waters of the Teesta and Feni rivers, reports UNB. Foreign Minister AH Mahmood Ali and his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj reached the decision at the third meeting of the India-Bangladesh Joint Consultative Commission …
Water Resources Minister Barrister Anisul Islam Mahmud on Monday said the government will go to the international arbitration if it fails to realise the fair share of water from common rivers through talks with neighbouring countries, reports UNB. “We want equity share of water from all the common rivers, including …
Erosion by the River Teesta took a serious turn in Kaunia upazila in the last five days, devouring at least 100 homesteads and a vast tract of cropland at Dhusmara Char village in Balapara union. Besides, a part of two-storied Dhusmara Government Primary School, the only educational institution at the …
Flood is likely to occur in some places of Meghna basin as water of Teesta, Surma, Bhugai, Someswari and Kansha rivers has exceeded danger level at Dalia, Sunamganj, Nakuagaon, Durgapur and Jariajanjail points respectively. Water of the rivers has been flowing 6cm, 44cm, 60cm, 30cm and 17cm above the danger …
A team of officials from Sikkim’s East District Administration and the NHPC has found that 16 houses downstream of the Teesta Stage-V hydel project in Jang village in Lower Rakdong Tintek are at high risk. The team under SDM Gangtok, Karma Lodey Lepcha, inspected the site on Tuesday, according to …
The river Teesta is flowing over the danger level in the district flooding 40 villages of different upazilas till yesterday afternoon, reports BSS. Executive engineer of Teesta Barrage Project Mahbubur Rahman told BSS the river was flowing 16 to 20 centimeters over the danger mark at Dalia and Kawnia points …
